Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

If they implement the NSS, and to be clear, there is every reason to believe they are already, it could destroy the alliance.

"The strategy signals that the Trump administration plans to orchestrate the downfall of almost all of Europe’s political leaders." www.csis.org/analysis/nss...

This is the twelfth and final portrait of a slow-art work called Season Clock.
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A mile up the lane from my house is an Oak tree standing sentinel, alone in her field, like a season clock. I've been making her portrait as a slow, on-going artwork, for five years.

Here's August's portrait.

#Photography #art #shotonfairphone #EastCoastKin

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cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c... Without dysprosium and terbium, your EV motor gets downgraded to a clunky, less efficient design that eats more power and delivers less range. Without tellurium, First Solar’s cadmium-telluride panels—the pride of U.S. solar manf.

I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals" charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c...

I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)

So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/

Beef Wellington is just a corn dog from a different socioeconomic background.